REW, I've worked for several contractors and the one I'm working for now gets more out of his men. I want to explain the difference between this one and the previous ones.
I know that when the customer has the money, it is out of my reach. If my employer and I work together, we can get the money into his hands. I get paid better and treated better with this employer than any other employer.
I don't share in the profits or copper, nor in the losses. He doesn't get mean about call-backs or "underbid" jobs, because we both know which direction we are going.
Compare that to the employer who cut everyone's pay and fired anyone who objected (me). The guys who were left started taking scrap copper home. I know it for a fact, because I was invited to the profit-sharing barbecue.
If your employees think that you are too hard, they will give themselves an incentive bonus. When that happens, you will lose big.
